The Superhero Blockbuster
Adaptation, Style, and Meaning
A detailed exploration of the adaptive practices, meanings, and industrial significance of popular superhero blockbusters
The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It
Stories of the engineers who designed and the brave pilots who flew the fastest, deadliest fighter of World War II
The Musicals of Cole Porter
Broadway, Hollywood, Television
A pivotal examination of one of America’s greatest songwriters, his lyrics, and his lifelong attempt to define the nature of love
Sax Expat
Don Byas
The riveting biography of one of the world’s greatest yet lesser-known jazz musicians
Regenerating the Feminine
Psyche, Culture, and Nature
An exciting study that aims to trace the resurgence of the feminine archetype in literature and film
King Noir
The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
The first critical study to trace the hardboiled detective inheritance of America’s Storyteller
Global Indigenous Horror
The first critical collection to unsettle the horror genre through a contemporary Indigenous gaze
Faulkner On and Off the Page
Essays in Biographical Criticism
Fresh perspectives on one of literature’s most willfully enigmatic figures
William Faulkner in Holly Springs
An intriguing argument and exploration that expands the postage stamp of the Nobel Laureate’s fiction
Russ Meyer
Interviews
Thirty years of interviews with the provocative and often controversial creator of films including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls;and Vixen!
Refusing to Be Made Whole
Disability in Black Women's Writing
A cross-disciplinary analysis on how Black women writers theorize disability and Black womanhood
Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction
Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and Erasure
One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism
Evanira Mendes
A Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement
The long-overdue recognition of a scholar and the vibrant Brazilian folklore she documented
Crossing the Pass of Clouds
An Army Photographer's Vietnam Journal
An extraordinarily up-close and personal photography collection and journal of the last years of the Vietnam War
A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington
The Man in the Music
Ellington’s music with fresh thematic explorations to delight music lovers
Us According to Them
Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010
A thoughtful look at how mainland US observers perceive and portray Puerto Rico
Prophetic Peril
The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives
A study of the call narrative storytelling tradition centered on four influential Black leaders
Lloyd Kaufman
Interviews
An extensive deep-dive omnibus from one of cinema’s most indefatigably ardent auteurs
Deep Roots, Broken Branches
A History and Memoir
A powerful, intimate portrait that weaves history across five generations of an American family
Conversations with Ted Kooser
Almost fifty years of interviews chronicling the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary
Black Saturation
Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson
The first full-length volume to showcase the critical corpus of an eminent scholar of Black literature
Atravesados
Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature
A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders
Animating the Victorians
Disney's Literary History
A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse
Voices and Visions
Essays on New Orleans's Literary History
An insightful survey tracing the influence of New Orleans writers, past and present, on the literary canon
Unpalatable
Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks
An examination of how narratives of suffering balance the conventions of joy and success in the southern cookbook tradition
Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children’s picture books
On the Very Edge
Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction
The first book-length study of Michelle Cliff’s entire literary corpus
Intersecting Worlds
Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures
An innovative global resituating of two literatures that intersect in revealing ways
George Valentine Dureau
Life and Art in New Orleans
An expansive and beautiful survey of one of New Orleans’s most accomplished and provocative artists
Comics Art in Korea
The definitive volume on the rich and dynamic field of Korean comics
The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White
Recalling the Blues
The first full-length biography of one of the greatest country blues performers
The Child Gaze
Narrating Resistance in American Literature
A compelling study centered on the eyes of children and their powerful lines of sight
Grotesque Progeny
The Commodification of Dangerous and Endangered Children
A detailed analysis of grotesque children and their meanings in contemporary texts for adults
Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives
The first complete account of all the music, song, and dance in the WPA ex-slave narratives
Double Crossed
Black Female Intersectionality in Hollywood
A concerning analysis of the distortions and pervasive stereotypes of Black female images within Hollywood
Contested Kingdom
Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland
An analysis of the thirty-year struggle between Southern Californians and the Walt Disney Company online and at Disneyland
The Purple One
Prince, Race, Gender, and Everything in Between
An electric collection of essays and reflections on an enigmatic musical legend
The Nine O'Clock Whistle
Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina
The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts
The Making of Sylvia Plath
A unique analysis of the media, literature, and pop culture that shaped Sylvia Plath’s literary achievement